['I am alive': Edmund Haviland-Burke corrects an 'unpleasant' error in Walford's 'County Families'. ] Autograph Letter Signed from 'E. Haviland-Burke' to Robert Hardwicke, publisher of Edward Walford's 'County Families of the United Kingdom'.

The letter is addressed to Hardwicke, as publisher of the second edition of Edward Walford's 'County Families of the United Kingdom' (1864), a footnote to whose entry on 'HAVILAND-BURKE, Edmund, Esq.' states that he 'Died whilst these sheets were at press.' 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and worn, with small square torn from a corner of the first leaf, causing loss to one word of text. Annotated: 'Burke | Answered'. Haviland-Burke writes with impressive self-control: 'Sir | My attention has been drawn towards the mention of my name in a Book called the “County Families” by Mr. Edward Walford, and in which there are three e First, my Father is not accurately described, 2ndly, I am not a member of the Irish Bar; 3rdly I am alive. The last misstatement being of an unpleasant character, I take the liberty of addressing you on this otherwise unimportant subject.' The full entry in Walford's book reads: 'HAVILAND-BURKE, Edmund, Esq. | Son of the late Thomas William Aston Haviland-Burke, Esq., of Beaconsfield, by Harriet, dau. of the late William Minshull, Esq.; b.183-; s. 1852. Is a Member of the Irish Bar, and nearest representative of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke.'